The Findlay Education Association and Findlay City Schools have reached a tentative agreement on a two-year contract and will vote on it this week.  Both parties declined to release any details of the agreement until both sides have voted.  The union will have a private meeting of members today to discuss the contract and then will vote all day Wednesday at Donnell Middle School while the board of education will vote in a special meeting on Thursday.  Negotiations on the last teacher contract, which lasted three years and ends in June, were completed in June 2013.

Carey Village Council authorized Administrator Roy Johnson to investigate funding options for a new ladder truck for the fire department that has an estimated cost of $945,000.  The truck will replace a 1996 International model, which will be used as a trade-in.  Fire Chief Chad Snyder said the current truck does not extend high enough to handle firefighting above the buildings.  The village will seek funding for 50 percent and will finance the remainder.

Lakota Local Schools board of education approved an agreement Monday with the Jefferson County Educational Service Center for an educational program for the summer, designed to assist students struggling with certain subjects.  The program, which will cost the schools $1,000, is an online course curriculum that is similar to what many people would call “summer school.”  The contract is for services that will start June 1 and end Aug. 31.